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by rexpop 7mo ago
It doesn't make sense to talk about poverty in the US without talking about race (or, ok, for you libertarians in the audience: "geography"). It certainly doesn't make sense to average the economic standing of a popula
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by rexpop 7mo ago
> Starting after age 20 Claiming that Talmudic adulthood begins simply "after age 20" completely misses the profound philosophical depth of the Jewish tradition! Judaism is fundamentally, as Levinas puts it a "religion of
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by rexpop 7mo ago
Wat we are witnessing is not just traditional totalitarianism, but the emergence of a suicidal state driven by a fascist death drive. Under MAGA, the state no longer pretends to be guided internally by reason and progress, but is instead fo
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by rexpop 7mo ago
Gross! There is no arena of life in which I can ethically abstain from adhering to my own morals. I am acting on my own morals when I work, shop, flirt, cook, shit, and ride my bicycle! My morals do not get to recuse themselves just becau
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by rexpop 7mo ago
Kingsnorth advocates for an existence that "thrives on tradition, in a local place... among a people"? Nice little "blood-and-soil" mythos he's got going there in his "reactionary radicalism."
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by rexpop 7mo ago
The use of force to compel behavior is a defining feature of any state, not just fascist ones. Political theorists from Max Weber onward have described the state as the human community that “successfully claims the monopoly of the legitim
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by rexpop 7mo ago
Government is that institution in our society which possesses a monopoly on violence and should be held to a higher standard than a tavern keeper.
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by rexpop 7mo ago
Super sad that the majority of your day for the majority of your life is repressive of your "self.*
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by rexpop 7mo ago
This idea that you are not your job is ridiculous because of the amount of time that you spend at your work. And it’s not just fifty of your waking hours, right? There’s also time spent preparing for, commuting to, and winding down from tha
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by rexpop 7mo ago
I would welcome collective responsibility only if it means collectively acknowledging the harm that was done, listening to those who were harmed, and committing to repair, not just punishing those in power. Restorative justice asks each of
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by rexpop 7mo ago
Fake or not-fake, what's the point of engaging with this vapid, objectifying material? Who's actually that stupid?
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by rexpop 7mo ago
I was taught, at a young age, that "sex sells," and to be wary of the car/beer/luxury good advertisements featuring scantily clad models. I was taught that women have value beyond their sex appeal and to associate with p
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by rexpop 7mo ago
These kinds of threats should, really, only strengthen our resolve. After all, they clearly demonstrate the opposition's danger should they succeed.
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by rexpop 7mo ago
Ugh, consume a greater variety[0] of media, please! "This" is mostly like every fascist, authoritarian administration or group in the history of civilization. And you only have children's franchise properties for reference? W
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by rexpop 7mo ago
Sorry, but your attitude is how the fascists win. "I'll be able to do more to support the victims," decent Germans told themselves, "if I accommodate the administration and keep my career." Totalitarianism does not
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by rexpop 7mo ago
This cartoonish, exaggerated themeing is so kitschy—it immediately reads like the beckoning signage of a huxter's roadside attraction. I'm deeply ashamed to be among a populace on whom that sort of obvious manipulation is consider
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by rexpop 7mo ago
Folks are just contesting the hyperbole.
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by rexpop 7mo ago
I'm informing you.
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by rexpop 7mo ago
> interesting things to see in the world I mean, kinda the least of our worries in this thread, no? Restaurants and tourism??
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by rexpop 7mo ago
Yes, and folks are free to decide when and if to end a relationship because they have needs that I'm not meeting. That's their freedom. But why speak in such absolutes? Trust is always partial. And, likewise, there's alwa
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by rexpop 7mo ago
Amen! And, in fact, the harder they fight, the harder our resolve.
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by rexpop 7mo ago
> getting to know the public face you present That's exactly what I'm saying! And by what means am I permitted, your majesty, to construct this face? May I read books to paraphrase? May I quote authors? May I practice at Toas
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by rexpop 7mo ago
I'm not "rambling," asshole. These are a few of those precious organic, human perspectives. You demand it, then disrespect me when I provide it? Your position is incoherent.
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by rexpop 7mo ago
> Weaponised therapy speak What does this mean? > speak with your own voice What does this mean?? > perfectly normal and in no way entitled No, not at all! Code-switching is the norm.
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by rexpop 7mo ago
> You don’t think they’ve tried every method No, I don't. Their experimentation is constrained by many forces.
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by rexpop 7mo ago
Reasonable people know to take your flippant tone for the colorful warning of a rotten, toxic brain.
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by rexpop 7mo ago
> It robs me of getting to know you. Ugh, you are not entitled to get to know me. There is a threshold between all that I share with the world and the rest of me. Hell, not every person gets the same picture , and that's deliber
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by rexpop 7mo ago
"The use of drones in these areas causes more collateral damage among the civilian population than it truly neutralizes gangs."
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by rexpop 7mo ago
If this is how you feel about oligarchs, well... I guess don't have anything to say.
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by rexpop 7mo ago
I mean, yeah. Epstein isn't an abberation, he's typical C-level management. They say "power corrupts", but I think it warps social reality. They're all complicit in the maintainance of a political economy that facil

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